LETTER: Constitutional violations steal freedom from each of us

Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 07:17 PM.

Our Constitution has been being violated for over 100 years. President Lincoln apparently was the first violator by initiating the “farm program” and now we have Social Security, Obamacare, etc., etc., etc.

Good or bad, shouldn’t they be constitutional? Instead, even our “best politicians” are afraid they will lose the next election if they quote the Constitution. Some are getting brave enough to say “Constitution,” but after all, only a lawyer can understand the 10th amendment.

I’ll quote it and you can get a lawyer to explain it if you don’t have the smarts of a 5th grader. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.”

These violations have progressed rapidly during the last few decades to the point that now the president proposed Obamacare without even consulting the House. The Constitution reads: Section 7 “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.” If Obamacare is constitutional, then will someone reply with something that is not constitutional!

These constitutional violations promise something to most all of us, but at the end of the day steal the freedom from each of us that has made this country the envy of the world.

Stowe Parker Gastonia

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Our Constitution has been being violated for over 100 years. President Lincoln apparently was the first violator by initiating the “farm program” and now we have Social Security, Obamacare, etc., etc., etc.

Good or bad, shouldn’t they be constitutional? Instead, even our “best politicians” are afraid they will lose the next election if they quote the Constitution. Some are getting brave enough to say “Constitution,” but after all, only a lawyer can understand the 10th amendment.

I’ll quote it and you can get a lawyer to explain it if you don’t have the smarts of a 5th grader. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.”

These violations have progressed rapidly during the last few decades to the point that now the president proposed Obamacare without even consulting the House. The Constitution reads: Section 7 “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.” If Obamacare is constitutional, then will someone reply with something that is not constitutional!

These constitutional violations promise something to most all of us, but at the end of the day steal the freedom from each of us that has made this country the envy of the world.